Juan José Imbroda

Juan José Imbroda Ortiz (2016)

Juan José Ortiz Imbroda (* 24 June 1944 in Melilla ) is a Spanish politician of Partido Popular (PP), the 2000 member of the Senate since March 12 ( Senado ) and since July 20, 2000, President in Morocco lying is part of Spain's autonomous exclave Melilla.

Life

After completing his studies, Juan José Imbroda Ortiz worked as a professor of commercial management , from 1979 to 1988 as a tax consultant and between 1988 and 1997 as a manager in a commercial enterprise and then as a management consultant. In 1979 he was elected First Vice Mayor of Melilla for the list of the Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) and held this post until 1983. In 1985 he joined the newly founded Unión del Pueblo Melillense (UPM), of which he became a member in 1987 of the Melilla City Council. After gaining autonomy on March 14, 1995, was the first deputy of the Parliament of Melilla, the Asamblea de Melilla , and has been a member since then.

On March 12, 2000, Imbroda was elected for the first time as a member of the Senate ( Senado ) for the UPM, which belongs to the Partido Popular (PP ) , and has also been a member of this since then. In the seventh legislative period, he was deputy spokesman for the PP group between April 17, 2000 and April 1, 2004 and, at the same time, a member of the Finance Committee (Comisión de Haciend) from May 10, 2000 to September 29, 2003 and May 2000 and February 7, 2002 also member of the Committee for the Autonomous Communities (Comisión General de la Comunidades Autónomas) . On July 20, 2000, he replaced Mustafa Hamed Moh Mohamed Aberchán as President of the Spanish Autonomous Exclave Melilla (Presidente de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla) in Morocco and has held this office since then. In the seventh legislative period from October 3, 2003 to January 20, 2004, he was also a member of the Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee (Comisión de Asuntos Exteriores) . Since the UPM's affiliation with the PP, he has been President of the Partido Popular of Melilla since 2003.

In the eighth legislative period of the Senate, he was a deputy member of the Standing Committee (Diputación Permanente del Senado) from May 12, 2004 to March 31, 2008 and, at the same time, from May 12, 2004 to January 14, 2008 as a member of the Applications Committee (Comisión de Suplicatorios) . He also served from May 12, 2004 to March 1, 2005 again as a member of the Committee for the Autonomous Communities and between September 13, 2004 and January 14, 2008 as a member of the Defense Committee (Comisión de Defensa) . On October 3, 2005 , Melilla was again the target of a mass onslaught of African migrants. Up to 800 people tried to get over the six meter high metal fence. Around 300 of them invaded Spanish territory. Melilla's mayor, Juan José Imbroda, indirectly blamed the Moroccan authorities for the incident. A solution could only come "from the other side of the border," he said. In the ninth legislative term of the Senate, he was a member of the Standing Committee between May 13, 2008 and December 12, 2011, and Chairman of the Immunity Committee (Comisión de Incompatibilidades) from May 13, 2008 to September 26, 2011 and between May 13 2008 and September 26, 2011 member of the Committee on Petitions (Comisión de Peticiones) . In addition, from October 16, 2008 to September 26, 2011, he was Deputy Speaker of the Defense Committee. In the regional and local elections on May 22, 2011 , the PP won an absolute majority with 16,820 votes (53.93%) and provided 15 of the 25 members of the Melilla City Council. The Coalición por Melilla (CpM) received six seats with 7,391 votes (23.7%), the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) with 2,661 votes (8.53%) only two instead of five seats and the Partido Populares en Libertad (PPL) of the former PP Mayor Ignacio Velázquez Rivera, who ruled from 1991 to 1998, 2,128 votes (6.82%) and also provided two members of the Melilla City Council.

In the subsequent tenth legislative period of the Senate, Juan José Imbroda was initially a deputy member from January 24 to July 16, 2012 and then a member of the Standing Committee between July 17, 2012 and January 12, 2016. In addition, he was chairman of the Committee for the Autonomous Communities from January 24, 2012 to October 26, 2015, a member of the Defense Committee between January 24, 2012 and October 26, 2015, and a member from January 24, 2012 to August 28, 2015 of the Immunity Committee. In the eleventh legislative period of the Senate, he was again a member of the Standing Committee between February 9 and July 18, 2016, and again Chairman of the Committee for the Autonomous Communities from February 9 to May 2, 2016. In the current twelfth legislative period of the Senate, elected on June 12, 2016, he is again a member of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Committee on the Autonomous Communities and First Vice-Chairman of the Joint Commission of Committees on Autonomous and Constitutional Communities (Comisión Conjunta de las Comisiones General de las Comunidades Autónomas y Constitucional) .

His younger brother is the basketball player and Partido Popular politician Francisco Javier Imbroda Ortiz , who coached the Spanish national basketball team between 2001 and 2002 and has been a member of the Parliament of Andalusia (Parlamento de Andalucía) since December 27, 2018 . Javier Imbroda has also been Minister for Education and Sport (Consejero de Educación y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía) of the autonomous community of Andalusia since January 22, 2019 .

Web links

• Entry on the Senate homepage
• Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on the Senate homepage (7th legislative period)
2. ↑ Spain: Autonomous communities (rulers.org)
3. ↑ Spain: July 19, 2000 (rulers.org)
4. ↑ Entry on the Senate's homepage (8th legislative period)
5. ↑ Entry on the Senate's homepage (9th legislative period)
6. ↑ Entry on the Senate's homepage (10th legislative period)
7. ↑ Entry on the Senate homepage (11th legislative period)
8. ↑ Entry on the Senate's homepage (12th legislative period)